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FENCE. No. 457,044. Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. DUFFEY, oF FoRT scoTT, KANSAS, AND ALvA L. KITsELMAN,

oF RIDGEVILLE, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,044, dated August4, 1891. Application filed August 15, 1890. Serial No. 362,090. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, FRANK B.IDUFFEY, of Fort Scott, county of Bourbon,and State of Kansas, and ALvA L. KITSELMAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ridgeville, in the county of Randolph and State ofIndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvenient in Felices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fences; and it has especial reference to thatclass of fences which are constructed of woven-wire fencing materialsuitably connected to posts or uprights, which latter may be preferablyconstructed of metal. The present invention relates to the ornamentationof a fence of this class by means of ornaments cast of malleable ironand it consists in the construction of such ornaments and the means forcombining them with and attaching them to the woven-wire fencingmaterial, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a fence having ourimprovements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of one of the ornamentsdetached from the fence. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line4 4 in Fig. l.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures. l

l designates the corner-post, and 2 2 intermediate posts, of ourimproved fence. The fencingmaterial, (designated by 3,) which is made ofwoven wire, is suitably stretched and attached to the fence-posts. Thesaid fencing material may be of any suitable construction or design. Weprefer, however, that it should include the distinguishingcharacteristics of the material shown in the drawings hereto annexed,which comprises the horizontal wires 5, interwoven or interlaced bydiagonal wires 6, the top and bottom wires being preferably heavier thanthe intermediate ones. For the purpose of securing this fencing materialto the intermediate posts or uprights of the fence we avail ourselves ofstaples 7, made of stouter wire than the horizontal wires of the fencingmaterial, said staples being mounted astride the post or uprights 2 andprovided at their ends with depending arms S, which are Simply bentunder the horizontal wires of the fencing material, which latter is thusfirmly attached to the post or uprights.

9 9 designate ornaments, which consist of castings of malleable iron,made in any suitable ornamental designs, being preferably composed ofopen-work, as will be seen by reference to the drawings. These ornamentsare provided near their ends, and, if desired, also at intermediatepoints, with rearward-extending shoulders 10, havingI downward-extendinglips or lugs ll.

In attaching our improved ornaments to the fencing material the saidornaments are simply placed against the front side of the fencingmaterial, and the hooks formed by the shoulders 10 and lugs 1l are madeto engage the wires of said fencing material. The lower ends of the lugs11 are then bent in a forward direction around the wires of the fencingmaterial, upon which the said ornaments are thus securely mounted. Itwill be observed that the shoulders 10 serve to support the ornamentsagainst vertical displacement, while the lugs 11, being bent around thewires ofthe fencing material, serve for the actual attachment to thefencing material of the said up` rights.

Fences have heretofore been constructed in which pickets of cast-ironhave been provided with Wrought-metal lugs, serving to attach suchpickets to horizontal supportingrails secured to the fence-posts. Suchpickets have been somewhat difficult and expensive of construction, andare essentially different from our invention, in which the ornaments aremade of malleable iron and provided with hooks or integral attachingdevices of a specitic construction for the attachment, not tosupporting-rails, but to woven-wire fencing material. Our improveddevices,'therefore, do not serve in the nature of ornaments alone; butthey perform another very important function in connection withwoven-wire fenc ing material, which is to brace and stiften suchmaterial and to hold the meshes thereof securely in their original andnormal relative position. The several parts of the inventionnamely, theornaments, the fencing material, and the staples for securing the latterto the posts-coact and co-operate to produce this useful result-namelythe keeping of the fencing material intact and in good condition.

It will be observed upon reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings that theornaments are attached to the fencingmaterial not only vertically,butalso diagonally, crossing each other, y

or intersecting each other, or in various other fanciful designs. Inthis manner a result is attained which is not only pleasing'to the eye,but which is also exceedingly effective in bracing and strengthening thefencing material, and thus increasing the durability of the fence.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- In a fence, thecombination of the posts,

the woven-wire fencing material including as a part thereof thehorizontal Wires,the staples straddling the posts and havingdownwardlyextending arms bent under the horizontal wires of thev fencingmaterial, and the cast malleable ornamental braces provided on theirrear sides with integral hooks engaging the Wires of the fencingmaterial and bent around the same, substantially as and for the purposeherein set forth.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoafiixed our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK B. DUFFEY. ALVA L. KITSELMAN Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. BEACON, HENRY T. KITSELMAN.

